The Providence Podcast

You Were Made For Love Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 6th October 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:14 ------------------- Title: You Were Made For Love Text: Exodus 20:14 Introduction: This week I was thinking about Faraday cages. Einstein had three pictures of three scientists in his study, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and James Clerk Maxwell. Faraday was a great experimental...

Life & Death: Motive, Means, & Opportunity Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 29th September 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:13 ------------------- You shall not murder. – Ex 20:13 If you ever have the power and the desire to take someone’s life unjustly, do not do it. There are various pieces of this we could talk about.  For instance, the word “unjustly.” If you ever have...

Growing for the Glory of God Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 15th September 2024 Passage: 2 Corinthians 4:15

Rest in a Busy World Series: Exodus Sunday Morning Date: 8th September 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:8-11 ------------------- The Revolutionary Nature of the 10 Commandments Because the 10 Commandments have become so ingrained in Western civilization, it is difficult for the modern reader to grasp how different this all was. This is a key burden of Joy Davidman’s book about the 10 Commandments, Smoke on...

Verbal Vandalism & The Third Commandment Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 1st September 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:7 ------------------- Introduction: “I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” – Matthew 12:36-37 How does that make you feel? I...

Ode to Sovereign Joy (Sermon Remix) Podcast Date: 19th August 2024 ------------------- This is a mashup of Ode to Joy and one of the first sermons I heard from Douglas Wilson (at the 2013 Desiring God Pastor's Conference). Though I had read him for a long time prior to this, I had never heard him speak. This was a lecture Wilson gave regarding the soteriology of CS Lewis.

Two Mountains: One Mandate Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 18th August 2024 Passage: Exodus 19:17-20:3 ------------------- Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and...

How to Outgrow Grumbling Sunday Morning Date: 11th August 2024 Passage: Exodus 15:22-25 ------------------- Title: Growing Past Grumbling Text: Exodus 15:22-25 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; t...

The Lord is a Man of War, Part 2 Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 4th August 2024 Passage: Exodus 15:1-27 ------------------- Call to Worship: Palm 52 Text: Exodus 15 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength a...

Insider & Outsider Status. AKA: How to Trick a Feminist Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 1st August 2024

The Lord is a Man of War Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 28th July 2024 Passage: Exodus 13:1-15:27 ------------------- Title: The Lord is a Man of War Text: Exodus 13-15 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space is reported to have said, “Oh my, its blue!” O course, the blueness of the earth would’ve been known, in a theoretical way, for many many years prior to this...

How to Hate Your Sin Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 25th July 2024

The Narcissism of Sin Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 22nd July 2024 Passage: Exodus 9:17

Pharaoh & the Problem of False Repentance Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 21st July 2024 Passage: Exodus 9:1-35 ------------------- Today we’re going to talk about repentance. In his book, Repentance: The First Word of the Gospel, John Owen Roberts notes: The first word of the gospel is not “love.” It is not even “grace.” The first word of the gospel is “repent.” From M...

Infertility and the Glory of God Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 9th July 2024

That You May Know Series: Exodus Speaker: Dov Cohen Sunday Morning Date: 7th July 2024 Passage: Exodus 7:1-13

How We Got the Bible Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 2nd July 2024

Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience To God Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 30th June 2024 Passage: Exodus 6:6-8 ------------------- Introduction: It could be said that the church exists as a love training center. The church exists to teach God’s people what to love, how to love those things, how much to love those things. Including love of nation. It is good to love your sp...

Does Public Theology Need Its Own Hermeneutic? Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Date: 28th June 2024

Patriarchs in Paradise Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 26th June 2024

Mountains of Assurance for Molehills of Doubts Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 23rd June 2024 Passage: Exodus 5:2-6:30 ------------------- Title: Mountains of Assurance for Molehills of Doubt Text: Exodus 5:20-6:30 We’re going to cover a very large portion of scripture today. And the first thing I want you to notice is that the whole section is bookended by people doubtin...

Leadership and the Crisis of Confidence Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 16th June 2024 Passage: Exodus 5:1-23 ------------------- When I started working on this text, I thought there was a sermon on busyness in there. After all, Pharaoh’s basic strategy is to keep the people so busy they lose all spiritual ambition. Which reminded me of an old saying from Corrie Ten Boom,...

How Does God View Political Entities? Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 12th June 2024 Passage: Genesis 12:3

Monotheism Made Our World Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 9th June 2024 Passage: Exodus 4:29-31 ------------------- Call to Worship 96 Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! 2 Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. 3 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! 4 For great is th...

Did Jesus Condemn Homosexuality? Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 5th June 2024